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When you hear the candidates talk about "job creators," that's just another way of saying "rich people" or "the guy bankrolling my super Pac."
When someone says "family values," that's to remind the audience that they don't like gay people; "religious freedom" means "Christianity".
Newt Gingrich has promised to build a double fence along the entire southern border, adding, ""The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,"
Ron Paul said "If elected president, I would move to quickly end foreign nation building efforts and use many of the resources we waste playing world's policemen to control our southern border."
They all will receive applause, and it will all sound great ... until you realize that "secure the border" is slang for "keep the Mexicans out."
You know, this whole immigration discussion would be a lot more productive if the people leading it would be more honest and stop pretending as if it's only about national security. It's a part, but the larger truth is that nonwhite people will be the majority in this country by 2040 and this browning of America scares the hell out of a lot of people, particularly some white people.
The thinking goes that if the country can deport the Mexicans who are illegally here and stop new ones from coming in, maybe that trend will slow down or even reverse.
That sentiment is at the core of the racial profiling laws started in Arizona and is at the core of the entire illegal immigration conversation. It's a clumsy attempt to talk about race without mentioning race so as not to appear racist .
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/21/opinion/granderson-border-security-canada/index.html
When someone says "family values," that's to remind the audience that they don't like gay people; "religious freedom" means "Christianity".
Newt Gingrich has promised to build a double fence along the entire southern border, adding, ""The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,"
Ron Paul said "If elected president, I would move to quickly end foreign nation building efforts and use many of the resources we waste playing world's policemen to control our southern border."
They all will receive applause, and it will all sound great ... until you realize that "secure the border" is slang for "keep the Mexicans out."
You know, this whole immigration discussion would be a lot more productive if the people leading it would be more honest and stop pretending as if it's only about national security. It's a part, but the larger truth is that nonwhite people will be the majority in this country by 2040 and this browning of America scares the hell out of a lot of people, particularly some white people.
The thinking goes that if the country can deport the Mexicans who are illegally here and stop new ones from coming in, maybe that trend will slow down or even reverse.
That sentiment is at the core of the racial profiling laws started in Arizona and is at the core of the entire illegal immigration conversation. It's a clumsy attempt to talk about race without mentioning race so as not to appear racist .
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/21/opinion/granderson-border-security-canada/index.html